Thursday, September 13, 2012

I love using my ice cream maker. A lot. It's so easy to whip up a quick batch of vanilla and then add whatever flavours I like to it, especially since I tend to like flavours that aren't common in most brands (well, except Marble Slab, which costs an arm and a leg). When I make it at home, I get the added bonus of knowing exactly what whole and natural ingredients I'm putting into my ice cream, too.

The Smiler happens to know that I like making ice cream and also has a very special talent for recognizing ice cream, regardless of what sort of container it comes in. As of late, he's developed a rather annoying habit of asking to have ice cream for breakfast, then having a total shit fit when I inevitably deny said request. I was venting about this very problem to my mother who said, "Oh, he's probably waking up with sore gums and wants something cold." I was gobsmacked. Of COURSE that was the problem. He's been working on those two year molars like crazy (hellish beasts that they are) and obviously something cold would be nice after a long, difficult night of trying to sleep through pain. My mom suggested I have frozen yogurt on hand to offer him instead and that sounded like a helluva good idea.

So, last night, as The Carpenter and I sat around after a very nice, early bedtime for The Smiler, I decided I would go whip up a batch of granola. As I started getting the stuff out, it struck me that there couldn't be a better time to try my hand at a batch of frozen yogurt, as well. I've never made it before, nor did I have a recipe, but I knew I didn't have enough straight up yogurt to make a whole quart so I figured I'd add some cream and/or milk and fruit and see what happened.

Here's what I came up with and, honestly, I wouldn't change a thing except that maybe I didn't need any sugar at all since the berries I used were fresh and very sweet:

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I am an architectural and structural design drafter by trade. I do contract work from home and run development and support groups for local attachment minded families and local diaper free families. I am passionate about at home learning and not institutionalising and industrialising my child. I am wife to The Carpenter and mother to The Smiler. I am home provider to a dog, Daisy (a puggle) and four cats, Flipside, Miss Riot, Turtle and Sonja. I enjoy long walks (summer), avoiding -40 temperatures (winter), ice cream and other dairy, yelling at the television, laughing 'til my cheeks hurt, playing with my son, avoiding helping with home renovation projects, arguing about said projects and making up after said arguments, keeping stuff I don't really need in boxes in the basement and complaining about how much room they take up, threatening yard sales that will never happen, noticing things wrong with strangers' houses as I walk by, coffee and coffee products, home decor, writing, collecting old photos, Edward Gorey, dark chocolate, drinking cold beverages from mugs, collecting clocks to my husband's dismay, art, bummin' around and music of all varieties, among other things.